[TriLUG] No BTRFS in RHEL8/Centos8?

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:31 PM Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Reading https://centosfaq.org/centos/missing-packages-in-centos8-mirrors-or-do-i-miss-something/#comment-128436
> and https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/545089 make me feel like RH will
> not be providing btrfs in rhes8. Does anyone know why? I see it still
> available in centos8, but I do not know if that too will be removed.
>
      Actually, that was fedora31. centos8 also does not have btrfs:

[root at vmhost2 ~]# yum search btrfs
Last metadata expiration check: 0:53:33 ago on Tue 21 Jan 2020 05:42:36 PM EST.
No matches found.
[root at vmhost2 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)
[root at vmhost2 ~]#

> [root at testbox tests]# yum search btrfs-progs
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Tue 21 Jan 2020 06:14:52 PM ES
> T.
> ===================== Name Exactly Matched: btrfs-progs =====================
> btrfs-progs.x86_64 : Userspace programs for btrfs
> btrfs-progs.i686 : Userspace programs for btrfs
> ========================= Name Matched: btrfs-progs =========================
> btrfs-progs-devel.i686 : btrfs filesystem-specific libraries and headers
> btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 : btrfs filesystem-specific libraries and headers
> [root at testbox tests]# yum search btrfs
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:24 ago on Tue 21 Jan 2020 06:14:52 PM ES
> T.
> ======================= Name & Summary Matched: btrfs =======================
> udisks2-btrfs.x86_64 : Module for BTRFS
> btrfs-progs.x86_64 : Userspace programs for btrfs
> btrfs-progs.i686 : Userspace programs for btrfs
> btrfs-heatmap-doc.noarch : Documentation for btrfs-heatmap
> libbtrfs.i686 : btrfs filesystem-specific runtime libraries
> libbtrfs.x86_64 : btrfs filesystem-specific runtime libraries
> python3-btrfs.noarch : Python module to inspect btrfs filesystems
> golang-github-containerd-btrfs-devel.noarch : Btrfs bindings for Go
> python-btrfs-doc.noarch : Python module to inspect btrfs filesystems
> libblockdev-btrfs.i686 : The BTRFS plugin for the libblockdev library
> libblockdev-btrfs.x86_64 : The BTRFS plugin for the libblockdev library
> libbtrfsutil.i686 : btrfs filesystem-specific runtime utility libraries
> libbtrfsutil.x86_64 : btrfs filesystem-specific runtime utility libraries
> btrfs-progs-devel.i686 : btrfs filesystem-specific libraries and headers
> btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 : btrfs filesystem-specific libraries and headers
> btrfs-heatmap.noarch : Visualize the layout of data on your btrfs filesystem
>                      : over time
> btrfs-sxbackup.noarch : Incremental btrfs snapshot backups with push/pull
>                       : support via SSH
> libblockdev-btrfs-devel.i686 : Development files for the libblockdev-btrfs
>                              : plugin/library
> libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 : Development files for the libblockdev-btrfs
>                                : plugin/library
> ========================== Summary Matched: btrfs ===========================
> compsize.x86_64 : Utility for measuring compression ratio of files on btrfs
> btrbk.noarch : Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs
>              : sub-volumes
> [root at testbox tests]#